As American As Apple Pie

In the text drawing I enlarge the fine print and add some of my own to question the selectivity and politics of the information that is shared about what we consume.

Missing Ground

Missing Ground, 20144 looped animations, black and white, no sound; less than 1 minute each

In Missing Ground I loop animations of farmers' gestures. I use animation, tracing, and repetition to create a sense of boredom and slow progress, embracing an idea of spirituality and one's connection to purpose and the surrounding environment, beyond efficiency.

IU2Bh

WU2Bh, 2013screen print on newsprint

IU2Bh, 2013video, color, no sound; 5 minutes

I used to be human is an animated video essay of a person trapped behind a screen in the information age, with nothing material to connect to besides memories of a past, distant lifestyle.

Destructive Walking

The following animations are made by a process of erased repetitions that gradually destroy the material they live on.

destructive walker_paper

destructive walker_clay

Subjectively Disintegrating

Subjectively Disintegrating, 2013video, color, no sound; 12 minutes

The drawn mark over a dissolving landscape suggests the subjectivity of information, emphasizing particular objects within a wider destruction. The ambiguity of scale keeps the focus on the movement and gesture rather than any specificity of space.

Subjectively Disintegrating

Unearthed

Unearthed, 2013dry wall

Unearthed was a piece exploring the idea of artifacts, the history of language and communication, and the remnants of civilizations. By carving computer-language into plaster I question what we, as a generation, will leave behind, the accessibility of this communication, and the anachronistic impossibility of digital code existing on geological material: our migration from a material world to a displaced digital world.

QR-cyborg

QR-Cyborg, 2013acrylic on paper

With QR-Cyborg I play with the formality of utilitarian information coding. I encoded a quote from Donna Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto. It reads "the relation between organism and machine has been a border war," questioning the tools we use to access information, and the hidden dimensions and language of computers. As the independent material pixels fall off I test the readability of the code and the encoded error-correction feature, questioning the border of information access between man, material and machine.

quasi-RGB

quasi-RGB, 2013acrylic on rice paper

The variation of tone that happens because of the artist's hand, the materiality of paint, and light passing through rice paper is something I seek when finding myself ubiquitously surrounded by computer code, and the ideal of fast perfection that is expected in our daily lives since our reliance on digital machines.

Transient Plans - Hierarchical Mess

Transient Plans, 2012post-it paper, black ink

Hierarchical Mess, 2012post-it paper, black ink

My unfulfilling obsession with sticky notes, to-do lists and daily plans led me to embrace the disorder that is present in everyday life. The disorder that comes from gravity, time, the material's physicality, and the imprecision of my own human hand.